News and announcements
Upstart 1.3 released on 2011-06-14
Written for upstart by James Hunt on 2011-07-12
A plethora or new features and updates, including all those from Ubuntu Natty.
Upstart 1.2 released
Written for upstart by Scott James Remnant on 2011-03-22
Brown paper bag release to fix an important bug in 1.1 that broke people with pdksh as /bin/sh
1.2 2011-03-22 ”This sort of thing is my bag, baby”
* Fixed incorrect shell redirection syntax that broke at least pdksh. (Bug: #739984)
Updated .
Upstart 1.1 released
Written for upstart by Scott James Remnant on 2011-03-17
Nothing says "stable release" like a merry round of bug fixes, including the file descriptor leak when the "script" keyword is used.
1.1 2011-03-16 "It's probably 'cause you think you're cooler than me"
* When /sbin/halt is called (without -p), this now results in the
system being halted and not powered down. If you meant it to be
powered down, use /sbin/poweroff. (Bug: #532366)
* Fixed file descriptor leak of /proc/self/fd/NN to shell scripts
executed by Upstart. (Bug: #619269)
* Fixed bug where console was closed too early, causing loss of error
messages and non-functioning keyboard-request event,
(Bug: #707151)
* Fixed bug where environment variables containing unusual characters
were not accepted due to a mis-reading of POSIX. (Bug: #567068).
* Fixed non-removal of symlinks on "make uninstall". (Bug: #604227)
* Reduced priority of job termination messages from warn to info
if the exit status or signal is listed in "normal exit".
(Bug: #522197)
Upstart 1.0 released
Written for upstart by Scott James Remnant on 2011-03-02
The trouble with a "1.0" release is that the temptation is for that
version to be the one with all the features you want when your users
want it to be stable. This is a 1.0 release of the latter kind, based
on the 0.6.x code that was shipped in both the most recent Ubuntu LTS
and RedHat Enterprise Linux releases. If you're running Upstart
anywhere right now, it's highly recommended that you update to this
version, there shouldn't be any surprises!
1.0 2011-03-01 "This is a fertile land, and we will thrive"
* Fixed an assertion when a file named /etc/init/.conf is created.
Discovered by Коренберг Марк (Bug: #720573)
* utmp entries will be replaced with DEAD_PROCESS ones when a
pid supervised by Upstart terminates. (Bug: #183729)
* shutdown now correctly returns error code if it fails to shutdown
the system.
* Included bash completion script in contrib directory.
(Bug: #672067)
Upstart 0.6.6 released
Written for upstart by Scott James Remnant (Canonical) on 2010-04-27
The main change in this release is that Upstart now takes care of mounting /proc and /sys on boot in the case where they haven't already been mounted by an initramfs or initrd. This corrects the long-running "chicken and egg" due to Upstart's use of /proc/self/fd to execute shell code, and allows Upstart to use /sys in future as well.
0.6.6 2010-04-27 "No, she's dead, this is her son"
* Upstart will automatically mount /proc and /sys on boot if they
have not already been mounted by the kernel or initramfs.
(Bug: #426263)
* Fixed double-quoting issue with the --with-local-libnih configure
option. (Bug: #530385)
* libnih 1.0.2 is now required.
